Absolutely incensed. (MAKE AMERICA PURPLE AGAIN!)

I've been watching the slow movement of Trump's antics as too! much! by people that now consider him politics as usual.
Most people are moving on.
They have recalibrated themselves about the whole situation and are back to life as usual.

I'm not.  I can't.  I'm appalled, horrified incensed, dismayed, highly offended, choose a word and it never quite makes it to the level I want.

I'm not alone.

There are some of us that remain inflamed by everything that is happening politically.

We can't get over it.  IT has left us afloat in a world that no longer makes sense.

How can one man run the country---sabotaging the very checks and balances that were built into the government format to prevent that very thing.

We currently have a Republican-held Senate that is working harder and longer trying to not shut down the government while trying not to fund a wall that only a minor portion (about 25 percent--unfortunately it's the same fools that voted in the current president---in the future, everyone needs to vote, everyone, and we need a 28th amendment to stop monied corporations from counting too much, and open primaries with top two so no third candidates will waste anyone's vote, and we need automatic renewal of voting rights once a person has paid his debt to society, and required Civic classes from 7th to 12th grade and gerrymandering "police" to prevent that crap and no more electoral college--every single citizen of this country has a vote that counts as much as every other citizen, and rules for social media that prevent any foreign government from influencing out citizens and an independent group of psychiatrists that test each candidate for mental illness, personality disorders and early onset dementia.)
As I was saying, a small percent want the wall, because it's a stupid idea that will do nothing but waste billions of dollars and screw up more habitat for the creatures that live there.

When the president's name is used, those of us that can't get over it have a drastic rise in blood pressure.  We rant.  We curse.  We seek out others of our ilk that are also ranting and cursing, posting memes about his insane behavior, reposting insane news reports with tacky comments of our own, posting political cartoons and activist rap songs and pictures of t-shirts showing negative things about our president and the current political happenings.

We are also slowly dying inside every time someone normalizes what is going on.
Every time someone implies he is good for the economy, or "look, he is having them fix the ridiculous prison sentences" or "I'm glad he stopped the Iran deal or the Paris deal or NAFTA or Obamacare".  We decry the tacky Christmas decorations and the immigrant wife.  We hate golf and casinos, if not before, then definitely now.

And, we shake inside.

Like a chill has taken us.

Like our own body has become disloyal to our well-being.

Like we have fallen down Alice's hole to a terrible wonderland or our neighbors have been overtaken by pod people.

It's fear.  And I'm not a fearful person.  I can be quite brave, and brazen, and feisty.

But I'm afraid of what is happening in this country.  Even knowing it was never the "greatest nation that ever existed" (let's face it, that is not an award, there are no parameters for that, every country likes to think of itself like that) I feel a deep loss of national identity.

We are now, not just NOT the greatest nation, but not even particularly good.  And we, as a nation, allowed a person that is neither good nor honest, neither well-meaning nor loving, to become our leader and our representation to the world.

We, We the People, we, need to take back our country.
No more excuses about bad behavior, or hate, or corruption or lying or treating people badly because they aren't US.

We need to NOT let this be the new normal.